2830. Bright Green Dye for Wood

2830.    Bright Green Dye for Wood. Proceed as in either of the previous receipts to produce a yellow; but instead of adding aquafortis or the brightening liquid, add as much vitriolated indigo (see last receipt) as will produce the desired color.

2831. Bright Red Dye for Wood

2831.    Bright Red Dye for Wood. To 2 pounds genuine Brazil dust, add 4 gallons water; put in as many veneers as the liquor will cover; boil them for 3 hours; then add 2 ounces alum, and 2 ounces aquafortis, and keep it lukewarm until it has struck through.

2832. Red Dye for Wood

2832.    Red Dye for Wood. To every pound of logwood chips, add 2 gallons water; put in the veneers, and boil as in the last; then add a sufficient quantity of the brightening liquid (see No. 2828 (Liquid For Brightening and Setting Colors)), till the color is of a satisfactory tint; keep the whole as warm as you can bear your finger in it, till the color has sufficiently penetrated. The logwood chips should be picked from all foreign substances with which it generally abounds, as bark, dirt, etc.; and it is always best when fresh cut, which may be known by its appearing of a bright red color; for if stale, it will look brown, and not yield so much coloring matter.

2833. Rose Colored Dye for Wood

2833.      Rose Colored Dye for Wood. Monier produces a fine pink or rose-color on wood of cellulose, especially that of the ivory nut, by immersing it first in a solution of iodide of potassium, 11/4 ounces per pint of water, in which it remains for several hours, when it is placed in a bath of corrosive sublimate, 135 grains to the pint. When properly dyed it is washed and varnished over. Wo should think that less poisonous materials might be found to answer the same purpose.

2834. Bright Purple Dye for Wood

2834.    Bright Purple Dye for Wood. Boil 2 pounds logwood, either in chips or powder, in 4 gallons water, with the veneers; after boiling till the color is well struck in, add by degrees vitriolated indigo (see No. 2829 (Fine Blue Dye for Wood)), till the purple is of the shade required, which may be known by trying it with a piece of paper; let it then boil for 1 hour, and keep the liquid in a milk-warm state till the color has penetrated the veneer. This method, when properly managed, will produce a brilliant purple.

2835. Orange Dye for Wood

2835.    Orange Dye for Wood. Let the veneers be dyed by either of the methods given for a fine deep yellow (sec Nos. 2826 and 2827), and while they are still wet and saturated with the dye, transfer them to the bright red dye (see No. 2821 (To Make Wood Incombustible)), till the color penetrates equally throughout.

2836. Silver-Gray Dye for Wood

2836. Silver-Gray Dye for Wood. Expose any quantity of old iron, or, what is better, the borings of gun-barrels, etc., in any convenient vessel, and from time to time sprinkle them with muriatic acid, diluted in 4 times its quantity of water, till they are very thickly covered with rust; then to every 6 pounds add 1 gallon of water in which has been dissolved 2 ounces salt of tartar (carbonate of potassa); lay the veneers in the copper, and cover them with this liquid; let it boil for 2 or 3 hours till well soaked, then to every gallon of liquor add I pound of green copperas, and keep the whole at a moderate temperature till the dye has sufficiently penetrated.